Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 50, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at May 23, 2007, 3:03 AM EDT for Lake County, Orange County, Osceola County, Florida. It took effect at May 23, 2007, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2007, 3:03 AM EDT (07:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 23, 2007, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 23, 2007, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS82 KMLB 230703 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 303 AM EDT WED MAY 23 2007 ...DRY AND BREEZY CONDITIONS TO INCREASE FIRE THREAT WEST OF ORLANDO... FLZ044-045-053-144-232200- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0050.070523T1800Z-070523T2200Z/ NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-OSCEOLA-SOUTHERN LAKE- 303 AM EDT WED MAY 23 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 35 PERCENT FOR AN HOUR OR TWO THIS AFTERNOON WEST OF ORLANDO. EASTERLY WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH COMBINED WITH THE ONGOING DRY CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED FIRE THREAT TODAY. THE BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE THE RAPID SPREAD OF ANY NEW OR EXISTING WILDFIRES. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW... OR ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:19 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | MLB | Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 18 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.